(_International
Congress of Criminal Anthropology_, 1889.) This case (except for
the early age of the subject) illustrates sporadically occurring
urolagnic symbolism in a woman, to whom such symbolism is fairly
obvious on account of the close resemblance between the emission
of urine and the ejaculation of semen in the man, and the fact
that the same conduit serves for both fluids. (A urolagnic
day-dream of this kind is recorded in the history of a lady
contained in the third volume of these _Studies_, Appendix B,
History VIII.) The natural and inevitable character of this
symbolism is shown by the fact that among primitive peoples urine
is sometimes supposed to possess the fertilizing virtues of
semen. J.G. Frazer in his edition of Pausanias (vol. iv, p. 139)
brings together various stories of women impregnated by urine.
Hartland also (_Legend of Perseus_, vol. i, pp. 76, 92) records
legends of women who were impregnated by accidentally or
intentionally drinking urine.
The symbolic sexual significance of urolagnia has hitherto
usually been confused with the fetichistic and mainly olfactory
perversion by which the excretion itself becomes a source of
sexual excitement.
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